Bill > HB2859

This bill amends the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to further provide for persons not to possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or transfer firearms, and for abandonment of firearms, weapons or ammunition. It also provides for masters in community and municipal courts and establishes a new Chapter 64A on extreme risk protection orders. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Expanding the list of persons prohibited from possessing firearms, including individuals subject to an active extreme risk protection order. 2. Creating a new misdemeanor offense for a person subject to an extreme risk protection order who fails to relinquish firearms as required. 3. Allowing law enforcement officers or family/household members to petition the court for an extreme risk protection order to prohibit an individual from possessing firearms if they present a substantial risk of suicide or causing serious harm to others. 4. Establishing due process requirements and heightened evidentiary standards for extreme risk protection order proceedings. 5. Requiring the relinquishment of firearms and firearms licenses when an extreme risk protection order is issued, and providing a process for the return of firearms upon termination or expiration of the order. 6. Allowing the Supreme Court to appoint a statewide program coordinator and advisory committee to assist with the administration of extreme risk protection order programs.